My friend found this weird balloon with crazy writing on it that said "14 Kids Kidnapped" and other info. He reported it to crime check and they said not to worry about it.

Edit to hopefully clarify stuff?: All I know is that my friend found a balloon on the side of the road. I can ask him if it where charles or not. All he knows is that one of his family friends/members (his moms boyfriend maybe?) called crimecheck. I cant keep track of all these comments and questions. We wanted to post to know wether we should take it seriously or not. Downtown spokane is pretty fucked, at the moment im probably with the people who said it was some delusional crap. We live in the 9mile area, not downtown spokane.

IT WAS FOUND BY THE OLD TOYSRUS DOWNTOWN NOT IN 9MILE

there was some misunderstanding

I posted something about this with photos in r/Creepy and it got a bunch of comments and honestly people are saying different stuff. I don't know what to say but a lot of people agree that I should mention it here?

I just need help to figure this out.

Here's the original: https://www.reddit.com/r/creepy/comments/1fwe7w2/my_friend_found_this_weird_balloon_with_crazy/

Again, a lot of people were saying different stuff. Well anyways the original post had photos my friend took of a balloon he found. He and a family member called crimecheck. The balloon had handwriting on it, some weird heck writing.

I'll type it out, at least try: "14 Kids Kidnapped, Lyonsmth, (can't quite figure out what it said, but I'm sure someone did) Apts. #23-25-26, Manhole under the gravel in the backyard and/or under the stove or fridge."

What others figured out: "14 Kids Kidnapped, Lyon's Glenn, Manhole under the gravel in the backyard or land under the stone or foliage. Apts. #23-25-26"

There's so much weird shit going on too. I dude I know got his car broken into, and two house down my road there was some weird dude looking through a middle schoolers window. On their property.

I don't know what else to say really except this is all just kinda fucked up.

Edit: A very possible reason: "It might have been written by somebody who read The June Boys by Court Stevens. A group of boys are kidnapped in the book and held underground. They escape by putting notes in balloons and pushing them up through a vent." -GreenTeam898989

I think I might just go to conclusion that its fake. Initially I thought it was, but we just diddnt want to go straight that route. So we wanted to make sure nothing else came up by the chance it was real. The numbers are weird tho.